Medium Roasted Coffee

We roast all of our coffees in the shop, which allows us to bring out the individual characteristics of each type on offer by varying the length of the roast. Medium roast, which covers a spectrum of colours, allows the best balance to be found between body, aroma and fruity acidity. The characteristics of the world's best arabicas. Whilst these coffees exhibit great differences in body, flavour and aroma they are typically known as 'mild' coffees. For those that like a stronger style of coffee please see our selection of darker roasted coffees.

This is a coffee of great complexity, with cupping notes observed by SCAA cuppers that included: great body, zest, almond, walnut, honey, caramel, sweet citrus, star fruit, floral aromas and chocolate. We buy these small 'lots' from an estate that engages in practices that exemplifies all that is meant by the term speciality coffee. This current batch is made on the Fazenda Rio Verde farm on the Ipanema estate. This unique lot is processed using the 'natural' sun-dried method, although they also produce fine coffee by the 'wet' method too. Sun drying ensures the sweetest flavours. Roasted to perfection for a filter or cafetiere it also offers a smooth espresso. It can be blended with our 'espresso' roast version of this coffee 'Espresso de Sol' to add nuance and for personalising your perfect espresso blend. One thing very few people argue with is that you have the best coffee for making espresso in the world however you blend it. Artisan roasted in our 2kg micro-coffee roaster. The farm is situated in the Mantiqueira Mountains. It is translated as the Crying Mountains. Learn More

The genuine Antigua Los Volcanes brand has been the standard of CAMEC coffee quality since its inception in 1952. Tasting notes from the Cup of Excellence competition include berry, tangerine, caramel, sweet spices, dark chocolate, lime, kiwi, butter, honey, caramelized sugar, plum, pineapple, melon, blackberry, cherry, and orange. We love its almost Nutella like quality and the hints of lemony, freshly milled pepper. The flavour is like chocolate, caramel and orange with a fig-like sweetness. The estate is in a micro-climate area and situated at nearly 6,000 feet. Learn More

This fine, silky bodied coffee's complex character is described as having: notes of peach, apricots, lemon, butter, vanilla, mandarin, citrus, red apple, pear. It is considered one of the sweetest, fruitiest coffees in Colombia. Artisan roasted in our 2kg micro-coffee roaster. This fully washed coffee was grown on ‘La Esperanza’ farm owned and worked by Gerardo Carvajal in the Bruselas, Huila region of Colombia, 1,600 meters above sea level. Learn More

This world-class coffee is blended from beans grown on the many organic estates in the Soconusco region of the Chiapas Highlands around Motozinta in Mexico. Cupping notes include dark chocolate, spice, nutmeg, lychee, malt, maraschino cherry, lemon, nuts and molasses. The farms are found at an altitude between 1,100 and 1,600 metres above sea level where each small producer carefully processes the cherries into parchment with strict quality control by their Cooperative. The Cooperative collects and purchases only the best quality parchment before delivering it to the company’s dry mill in Tapachula, Chiapas. Learn More

If you give this coffee to someone without telling them it’s decaffeinated-coffee you will always be greeted with the same look of astonishment when they find out! Firstly because we apply the same criteria for excellence to the coffee we choose to decaffeinate as we do to all of our Grand Cru coffees. Expect flavours of chocolate, biscuit, peach, apricots, lemon, butter, vanilla, mandarin, citrus, red apple, pear and caramel. Secondly, the method of decaffeination is designed to remove only the caffeine and not the precious flavour compounds that give coffee its character. The natural Mountain Water Process method uses clear, pure water from the glaciers of the Pico de Orizaba Mountain to float the coffee oils and caffeine in a solution. Learn More

This coffee is grown in the Escambray Mountains where the soil is rich in quartz and mica crystals, hence the name. Characteristics noted include: Intensely aromatic, elegant, delicately sweet, creamy, notes of walnuts and caramel, cacao, sweet tobacco, cedar wood, brown sugar, leaving a cocoa butter coating in the mouth. The unique terroir, mild climate and frequent rains, form an ideal microclimate for growing this rare and outstanding coffee. The varieties planted are Typica, Bourbon, Villalobos and Isla 6-14. It is a wet-processed coffee, like many of the finest coffees from the Americas. Artisan roasted in our 2kg micro-coffee roaster. Learn More

This coffee is produced from bushes transplanted from the famous Blue Mountains of Jamaica. As such it is a very refined, smooth coffee with complex aromatics that include cedar, ginger, spice, nutmeg and chocolate. It is more full-bodied than its prestigious cousin and offers up a very syrupy quality in the cup. The mountainous, moist cultivation area has loamy soil and a variety of native shade trees. Korofeigu Farmer's Cooperative Society is located in the Bena Bena valley of the Eastern Highlands between Goroka to the west and Henganofi to the east. The Coop is comprised of 97 members (some of whom are seen above near a nursery), with a total cultivation area of 112 hectares. Learn More